![]() ![]() While the places are real, Daniels said the story and the character of Lucius Clay were his own creation. ![]() The community is just down the road from the Wooley Swamp, which is located near Elizabethtown, North Carolina. It just seemed like the kind of place a story like that could happen. The lyrics mention Carvers Creek, a small community in Bladen County, North Carolina. We ‘coon hunted, so we hunted there at night and it was all overgrown with briars and brambles and all kinds of stuff. “I happened to think about this old swamp down in North Carolina - called the Wooley Swamp - I used to hunt in when I was a boy that was a real spooky place. “I started casting around looking for an old mountain legend or an old Indian legend or something, and I never could find anything I felt could fit in the bounds of the song,” Daniels explains. They were mean as a snake And sneaky as a cat And belligerent when theyd speak. He wanted to follow in the cinematic vein of masterpieces like his own “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” and Marshall Tucker Band’s “Fire on the Mountain,” which had come out only a few years earlier. The Cagle boys was white trash they lived over on Carvers Creek They were mean as a snake and sneaky as a cat And belligerent when theyd speak. And it all started when the icon decided to write a ghost story. Note: When you embed the widget in your site, it will match your site's styles (CSS).“It was that way then, and it’s that way now,” he says.īut killer band aside, it’s the song’s spooky plot and Daniels’ intense delivery that have kept fans of “Wooley Swamp” on the edge of their seat for so long. Get the embed code The Charlie Daniels Band - The Essential Super Hits of the Charlie Daniels Band Album Lyrics1.Boogie Woogie Fiddle Country Blues2.Drinkin' My Baby Haired Country Boy5.Simple Man6.The Devil Went Down to Georgia7.The Intimidator8.The Legend of Wooly RiderThe Charlie Daniels Band Lyrics provided by There's a spot in the yard in back of that shackĪnd on certain nights if the moon is right ![]() (5538) to PCT to Wooley Creek Trail to Bridge Creek to Haypress Trail to Sky High. Now that's been fifty years ago an' if you go back by there again 1 Night Pine Creek Wilderness Backpacking. Today there is even a Wooley Swamp Farms RV Park in Snow Hill, North Carolina. Since Charlie Daniels roots included North Carolina I loved that he mentions Carver’s Creek which today is a state park just outside of Fayetteville NC. Then they turned around and went back to the shackīut they hadn't gone nowheres when they realizedĪnd they struggled and screamed but they couldn't get away The song tells a spooky story that includes references to the GHOST of Lucius Clay. Then they threw him in the swamp and they stood there and laughed They found the old man out in the back with a shovel in his handĪnd thirteen rusty mason jars he just dug up out of the sand.Īnd they all went crazy and they beat the old man We'll get old lucias' money and we'll pitch him to the alligators. One night the oldest brother said ya'll meet in the wooly swamp later They were a real snake and sneaky as a cat The crayton boys were white trash they lived over on parvis creek He'd pour it all out on the floor of his shack He'd stuff it all down in mason jars and bury it all aroundīut on certain nights if the moon was right Deutsch English Español Français Hungarian Italiano Nederlands Polski Português (Brasil) Român Svenska Türkçe. The old man didn't care about people anyway The Charlie Daniels Band The Legend of Wooley Swamp lyrics: Well, if you ever go back into Wooley Swamp, / Well, you better not go. The old man lived in the wooly swamp way back in the gurgling woodsĪnd he never did do a lot of harm in the world That there's some things in this world you just can't explain. No i couldn't believe it, i just had to find out for myself There's things that crawl and things that flyĪnd things that creep around on the groundĪnd they say the ghost of lucias clay gets up and it walks around.īut i couldn't believe it, i just had to find out for myselfĪnd i couldn't conceive it, i never would listen to nobody else There's things out there in the middle of them woods If you ever go back into wooly swamp son you better not go at night
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